Utah John

He was a good player but not THAT good while with the Bills. These days, I don't think he'd start -- our current WRs are better, and can stretch the field better as well, since Brown and Diggs both have much better speed. And Beasley is great in the slot. And if he's getting that much money from somewhere else, then good for him, godspeed and all that.

After a few weeks of the season, it will be interesting if someone does a statistical analysis to see if having a limited number of fans in the stands provides an advantage to the home team. The study would have to control for how good the home team is in the first place, based on their road record. Otherwise it could be that really good teams are the ones that permit fans to attend, so we couldn't tell much about the benefit. I would guess that having 7K fans in a stadium built for 50K+ will be a small boost to the home team, but not nearly the same as a full stadium.

It looked to me that the goal posts, particularly the one on the right, were not perfectly vertical. They both bent to the right, looking at them from the field. Unless it's possible to ensure the goal posts are perfectly vertical, putting a camera (or laser beam) on the top won't really tell whether it was where it should be. Or, maybe, make the goal posts flexible and let them sway in the wind. Get inside the heads of those kickers, who will have to hit a moving target. Quarterbacks do it, so why not kickers? That would REALLY make extra points interesting.

The Jets have a great run defense and a great D line, which our O line couldn't get holes in. The problem starts with the line. The RBs never had a chance to get going. Our O line is average or a little better, but needs to get significantly better to let the rest of the O reach its potential.

I am impressed by the professional and committed way Diggs has practiced and played. Absolutely not a diva. Whoever said that about him when he was a Viking had the wrong picture.

When you don't hear an OL's name, it means he didn't get flagged for any penalties and didn't do anything egregiously bad. But the entire O line really struggled against the Jet's D line. Our RBs got lousy stats but they had no holes to run through. So yeah, I didn't hear any of their names but I didn't see Motor or Moss sprinting to the second level, either.

TDs instead of FGs.

I love having White on the Bills, but honestly, is there very much difference between the top four or five CBs? They're all great players. The status thing of being the highest paid guy might make a difference somewhere, but I don't see how White or any of the others will ever spend all the money they're getting paid. White's in a great situation in Buffalo, and he has no need to rock the boat OR to break the salary cap budget and make it hard to keep other players on board. Good on him to "settle" for these vast riches, when he could probably have gotten more somewhere else.

Every year, injuries are the wild card. This year, we also have covid to worry about. If a couple of key guys are out, the Bills will struggle with this schedule. Of course every year there's a risk of injuries for every team, and it comes down to whether you are lucky or unlucky. Last year the Bills were pretty lucky.

Cole Beasley. I could afford to buy his lunch. Everyone else, I'd be worried about volume.

For some reason, the fish always play the Pats tough, and they beat the Pats surprisingly often, for example at the end of last year when the Pats needed a win for their playoff seeding and lost to Miami in Foxboro. And that was with Brady and all their starting LBs. I would not be surprised with a Miami win, setting up a very interesting game in Miami for week 2, playing the Bills.

From what I remember, this is the nicest time of year in Buffalo. If I could travel, I'd be there to see family and be in town when the Bills play. I think Dareus is retired and enjoying his life after football, probably visiting friends on the team and in the community. But if he's in football shape and is willing to follow the process, he'd be an upgrade over everyone else we've got, at least until Harrison Phillips gets fully healthy. A one year deal until Star comes back would make sense.

Oh, who cares.

They did this with Shady too, and let Jordan Phillips walk early on, when both the Bills and Phillips liked each other but both knew the money wasn't available for him here. These were classy moves, and help contribute to the positive image of the Bills around the league.

All I can figure is, that the Bills told Brown that if he wants his job back eventually, he needs to amclay the uckfay up.

The best Bills team of the past 10 years is the 2020 season as it's already played out in all our heads. 14-2 and a home playoff win.

The other owners won't want Snyder expelled, because he makes them all look good by comparison. And he doesn't cost them money. There's just no win there for the other owners, or Goodell, to do anything.

Reich's claim to fame, the big comeback, wouldn't have been necessary if he'd played well in the first half and the start of the second, when he threw the pick six. He was really bad before he was good. Fair is fair, you have to consider the entire game.

I became a Utah Utes fan when I lived in Salt Lake City, and Moss was my favorite Ute. He is both tough and elusive. He does have speed but isn't really quick, but he has the power to make people miss if they guess even a little bit wrong about where he's going. I told this board before the draft that we would love Moss if we drafted him, and so far that's looking good. He reminds me of how Freddy Jackson played with heart, but Moss is more talented, bigger and stronger. (Freddy is actually taller but Moss is thicker and stronger.) The end of THIS season is a long way off, let alone two or three or four years from now. Let's hope both Singletary and Moss are having good, productive, injury-free careers, when the time comes to make a decision about whether to keep both, one, or neither.

May I suggest we evaluate who the best QB in the AFCE is, AFTER the season? It could be Tua, for all we know right now.

I was playing soccer back in my younger days, when a 30-something man on our team had the ball kicked directly into his abdomen, which ordinarily is fine since the ball drops to your feet and you're in control. This time, it ruptured his spleen. This was a very fit man in good shape. Odd things happen. Someone falls on KJ (like that never happens in football) and it ruptures his liver. Some guys are just unlucky, and it's a shame. KJ was a good player for the Bills and I wish him well.

Fitz, Cher -- same difference.

If they limit the size of the crowd to 10K or so, the lines in the bathrooms won't be very long, if any. They could set up a roped-off lane to allow only so many people into the bathroom at the same time. Same thing for the gates outside -- set up rope lanes and use spacing between the people in line. With smaller crowds, this won't be insurmountable.

57. Damn. Too early.

I was working in the stands a pop vendor that season, and I was there for the first game. The next year I had turned 18 so I was old enough to sell beer, so I made a lot more money from then on. (Yes, the drinking age was 18 way back then.) 1973 was the year OJ broke 2000 yards in 14 games, which no one has ever done again. To me, he was the best RB ever, other than Jim Brown who was the best football player ever. Because I was working, I got into the games for free that year. I didn't make much money but I did get to see a lot of OJ.